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Bad bury. This spot, for reasons that I shall afterwards explain, I 

 call Bokerly Junction. Here the left centre of the dyke terminates, 

 and turning at a sharp angle towards the north, the left wing of the 

 dyke, now reduced in size, runs forward, occupying the most elevated 

 part of the hill, until it reaches Hill Copse. This is nearly the only 

 remaining copse of the Chase Wood, the rest having been completely 

 destroyed in this district. Passing Hill Copse, the dyke winds 

 round to the westward, running down hill beyond West Woody ates. 

 It does not cross the G rim's Dyke, as has been stated, but turns 

 and runs parallel to it. It is last seen, much reduced in size, in 

 front of West Woody ates, and making for the entrenchment in 

 Mistlebury Wood, but it cannot be traced up to it. The dyke does 

 not extend to the chalk escarpment on the north, as has been stated 

 by some writers, but runs nearly parallel to it, at a distance of a 

 mile from it, the ground rising gradually towards the escarpment 

 from the dyke. The interval was occupied formerly by Cranborne 

 Chase Wood, up to within 100yds. or so to the escarpment, along 

 which, for some miles, there appears always to have been, and is 

 now, a ridge of open down land, termed the ftidgeway, running east 

 and west along the top of the hill. Across this Ridgeway, on 

 referring to the Ordnance Map, banks may be seen in three 

 different places behind each other, having ditches on the east side, 

 and separated by intervals of a mile or so, the most westerly being 

 that which cuts across the hill, to the west of Win Green. These 

 short entrenchments, facing as they do always to the east, appear 

 to me to have been thrown up to check an advance along the 

 Bidgeway of an enemy coming from the east, and, if so, may have 

 been a part of the general system of defence of this district, in 

 connection with Bokerly Dyke, though not actually communicating 

 with it. These entrenchments had their left flanks on what I call 

 the chalk escarpment, though it is in reality nothing but a steep 

 hill, and their right, in former days, upon the Chase Wood. 



Still further to the north-west a line of bank and ditch, with the 

 ditch still on the east side, runs across White Sheet Hill for about 

 a mile in the direction of Wardour. Both flanks of this detached 

 work terminate at the bottom of the hill, upon ground which may 



